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Wildlife Victoria is co-ordinating food drops in fire-devastated areas in a bid to save starving animals.
Residents in fire-devastated areas are urged to contact them if they see starving animals so volunteers can deliver the food.
It has set up accounts with produce stores in 15 locations, including St Andrews, Myrtleford and Kyneton, for local wildlife carers to buy food for the drops.
By Vanessa Scott, 17 March 2009
Whilst Cheryl Hardy was busily organising donations for animals, I overheard her speaking to a company located in East Bentleigh who were willing to donate some kitty litter. My ears pricked up as I grew up in that area and it was convenient for me to pick up the donation.
Due to working hours, my mum picked up the kitty litter instead – thanks mum. Initially they were going to donate 10 bags but they ended up completely filling my mum’s Mazda. In the end Equinox Manufacturing Industries generously donated 24 x 34litre bags of kitty litter - thank-you to Jay at Equinox. He even told mum that she should have bought along a bigger car! Their generosity was amazing. In fact we are going back in a couple of weeks to pick up some more.
I collected the 24 bags of kitty litter from mum’s house and transferred them to my little beep-beep Barina. The car looked very funny loaded up with kitty litter.
On Saturday morning, I drove to Animal Aid in Coldstream and delivered the kitty litter. They were very grateful. I was overwhelmed at the amount of donations that Animal Aid were receiving. There were pallets of food, kennels, rabbit hutches, kitty litter trays - everything you could think of. While I was there, some volunteers were loading up a huge truck to take supplies up to Narbethong where it was desperately needed.
Cages and hutches at Animal Aid
It was only a small contribution but I was glad to help in some way. I’ll be driving up to Coldstream in a few more weeks to take up a delivery of towels, blankets and more kitty litter and this time I will have a bigger car!
Donations at Animal Aid
